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Renewable energy options in developing countries
Developing countries are witnessing a substantial growth in their greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to rapid industrialization …
Everywhere under the sun
Solar power has a unique opportunity in undeveloped and developing regions, particularly those with over-burdened and/or limited electricity grids.
Women entrepreneurs transforming Bangladesh
Key to Grameen Shakti’s success was the deliberate drive to involve women in the take-up of renewable energy …
Carbon capture and storage:
A necessary climate mitigation tool
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
Energy for development
The private sector is a major driver of economic growth, and a thriving business environment is a pre-condition for the development of a dynamic private sector …
Energy for all
According to Kandeh K. Yumkella and Leena Srivastava, energy access is the ‘missing’ MDG that will end the poverty trap.
The next industrial revolution
Nobuo Tanaka looks at the technologies for reducing industrial CO2 emissions and the policies that are needed to ensure their widespread use.
Grassroots industrial policies
Today’s grassroots approach to poverty reduction shouldn’t be equated simply with boot-strap operations or self-help schemes. The bottom-up policies and institutions that are now being experimented with in Africa and other poor regions have highly innovative elements.
After Copenhagen
In 2004, Bianca Jagger received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for her “long-standing commitment and dedicated campaigning over a wide range of issues of human rights, social justice, and environmental protection”. She is the founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.
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The experience of participating at the Copenhagen [...]
Bioenergy development in sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil fuel [...]
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